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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Jason Diakite is a Swedish rapper, hip-hop artist. He was born in Sweden to an American white mother and an American Black father. In A Drop of Midnight he tells the story of his family. Beginning with his father’s early life in South Carolina and moves to Harlem, Army service in Korea and then to Sweden. The author made several trips to the US South to explore and document his family history. While Jason was conflicted by his mixed ancestry as a child he sees it differently now. Rather than seeing himself as divided by his African and European/American parts he is multiplied by wholes. Jason Diakite performs with the stage name of Timbuktu. He has won the Swedish Grammy award eight times. My fault that I hadn’t heard of him before I read this book. I will look for Timbuktu on Pandora. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité's vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family's history--from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden. Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds--part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man's-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging. In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors' origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents' struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden. What unfolds in Jason's remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I found this an interesting and thoughtful read, and respected how much Diakité was clearly working to grapple with the complexities of his family's past. (And wow, it is complex and full of trauma. For instance, in the 1950s, his grandmother sent her children, including Diakité's father, from New York City to Nigeria to be raised in what she saw as a more uplifting and Afrocentric environment—by themselves.) However, it's a little disjointed and repetitive, and I felt that Diakité rarely settled into enough of a groove to let him go deep on a topic. Still, an engaging read from an unusual perspective. ( )